Researchers aimed to optimize the detection of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) using convolutional neural networks (CNN).They explored manually adjusted versus automated window-setting optimization (WSO) on computed tomography (CT) images.The study utilized 7,194 CT images and compared various CNN architectures.By applying automated WSO, the DenseNet model achieved a mean AUC of 0.82 for detecting COPD.